What is the certification of Sisvel license? Does the European market need MID?

Sisvel certificate is issued by Italian Sisvel licensing company. Sisvel Licensing Company is only a patent charging company, and its main function is to collect patent fees for Sisvel patent holders. There is a package of SIVEL patents for MP3 format intellectual property rights, the main patent owner involved is Fraunhofer Association of Germany, and other SIVEL patents are in the hands of France Telecom and Philips.

France Telecom has entrusted SISVEL S.P.A to collect patent fees, and Flawn Hough Institute has also provided permission to Thomson Multimedia, which is in charge of collecting patent fees for SIVEL, to collect 1% royalties from MP3 download companies, while hardware companies pay a certain amount for each single channel or multi-channel. At present, the products involved in this certificate are: DVB-T, MP3, MP4, MP5, DVD, digital photo frames, set-top boxes, advertising machines, mobile phones and other digital products.